Sentence examples for killed two weeks from inspiring English sources

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Awlaki's father, Anwar, was killed two weeks earlier for terrorist operations, but the son's killing sparked outrage among human rights activists who argued that Awlaki's death was unrelated to his father's activities and he was executed without charge, trial or legitimate reasoning.

— Angie Zapata was killed two weeks shy of her 19th birthday last summer, beaten to death with a flurry of fists and a fire extinguisher.

Awlaki's 16-year-old son was killed two weeks later in a drone strike that a senior administration official said was a "mistake" because someone else had been targeted.

In a separate episode in Laghman Province in eastern Afghanistan, the Taliban buried a bomb near the grave of a young man they had killed two weeks before because he worked for a member of the Afghan Parliament, said Gen. Zaman Mamozai, an Interior Ministry official who is a distant relative of the victim.

What was reported in the news bore the standard sterility: "One soldier killed; five others injured". What wasn't said was that Branden Oberleitner, the private who died standing almost shoulder to shoulder with Shrode, was a car buff who once planned to become a firefighter or that he was killed two weeks shy of his 21st birthday.

What wasn't said was that Branden Oberleitner, the private who died standing almost shoulder to shoulder with Shrode, was a car buff who once planned to become a firefighter or that he was killed two weeks shy of his 21st birthday.

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The animals were killed four weeks after the end of distraction.

Among the dead is Mr. Sicilia's son, killed seven weeks ago in the colonial city of Cuernavaca.

Labistida was killed seven weeks after gunmen shot to death Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, Mexico's federal police chief, at his home in Mexico City.

The first time, I was arrested and expelled by the Pakistani government; the second time, I was invited by a Taliban warlord who was killed six weeks later.

Her son was killed three weeks ago by a band of rebel fighters after he refused to dig trenches for the defense of the Chechen capital.

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